5 Oct
2004
5 Oct
'04
9:25 a.m.
Tom Jennings wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
BYTE magizine years ago had a printed media format at one time.
you may want to check on what they did. BYTE also had something
once on a very low cost write only media, I wonder what happend to
them.
I once was wondering if a backup software could be
written that writes to
laser printer.
Not sure about toner longevity, but it's otherwise not a joke.
Backups would be read in with a scanner..
Hmm limit usable area to 8"x10" = 80 sq in. 600 dpi = 48mb per page.
A size dot addressable? Don't think so... reliably, a few K,
or tens of K. Maybe 100K with a proprietary wacko scheme.
Better yet, good quality text, human and machine readable,
redundant, copyable, etc etc ...
Density isn't the only metric...